Sash-fastener



(No Model.)

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SASH FASTENER.

Patented Mar. 5, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @EEicE,

THOMAS HENRY TEAL AND ROBERT ARTHUR CAMPBELL, OF JONES- BOROUGH, TEXAS.

SASH-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,169, dated March 5, 1889.

Application filed December 27, 1888. Serial No, 294,737. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMA$ HENRY TEAL and ROBERT ARTHUR CAMPBELL, citizens of the United States, residing at J onesborough, in the county of Coryell and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Iniprovemeuts in Sash Holders and Locks Combined; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertaius to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

Our invention has relation to sash holders and locks combined; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts, hereinafter set out in this specification and claim.

The object. of this invention is to provide a cheap but serviceable window-sash holder and lock combined, which at the same time prevents rattling of the sash, which is so troublesome and annoying in windy weather.

This invention is so constructed that it may be applied to all windows, whether in houses, cars, boats, or elsewhere, where the sash slides up and down.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view showing the window-casing A and window-sash .3 with our invention attached thereto, part of the wood being cut awayfrom both, whereby a sectional view of our invention is shown. Figs. 9, 3, A, and 5 are detail views.

Ye out a groove, c, in the face of the window-sash B, and a perforation, c, is cut from the face of said sash to its inner edge and conununicatcs with said groove, and a hole, 0 which may be called the spring-socket, is bored from the bottom of said groove into said sash large enough and deep enough to hold a spiral spring, 1).

Our lock is described as follows: in said spring-socket c is a spiral spring, D, long enough for its inner end to rest on the bottom of said spring-socket and for its outer end to bear against the inner face of the casing A. The lock-plate E is made long enough and wide enough to fit in the groove 0, and has a handle, e, which passes through the perforation 0 to and a little beyond the inner edge of the window-sash, and is slightly turned up This lock-plate is provided with a thimble, e, which may be riveted, soldered, or otherwise secured to the same, or it may be cast with it, stampech or otherwise formed. This thimble receives and covers the outer end of the spiral spring D, and the outer end of the said thimble is by means of said spiral spring pressed against the inner face of the windowcasing and keeps the sash from rattling, and in houses or other stationary structures will keep the sash from slipping down. This lockplate is provided at its lower end with hingenib 6 which turns out and enters into a corresponding holc,f, in the covering-plate F. The covering-plate F is made a little longer and a little wider than the groove 0, and is countersunk in the face of the sash B, and com pletel 3 covers the locking-bar E, except the thimhlc e, which passes through the open ingf in the said covering-plnto In the face of the casing A countersunk a locleplate, G, provided with an opening, g, large enough to receive the outer end of the thimblo e. '0 may put on one or as inan of these lockingdates as we wish, or we may bore holes in their stead when putting on a cheap lock. The hinge-nib e on the lockplate E, which works in the perforation f of the covoring-platc F, acts as and answers the place of a hinge,

The operation of ourloc'k is: Take hold of the handle (2 and pull it inwardly until the outer end of the thimble e drawn back flush or less than flush with the outer face of the covering-plate F, and while holding it in this position raise or lower the window to the position desired and then let the handle go, when the spring-D throws the thimble through the opening f and impinges it against the face of the casing.

lVhen lockin g-plates G are used, the thimble is made to enter the opening g in one of said plates.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, With a Window-sash, of vided with the perforation f and opening f, the spiral spring D, its inner end resting in substantially as shown and described, and for the socket 0 its other in the thimble e, lockthe purposes set forth. ing-plate E, having the hinge-nib 6 Working In testimony whereof We at'fix our signa- 5 in the perforation f, and thilnble 8, receiving tures in presence of two Witnesses.

and covering the outer end of said spring, and THOMAS HENRY TEAL. handle 8, said lock-plate and handle fitting 'ROBT. ARTHUR CAMPBELL.

! and Working in groove 0, and perforation c, i Witnesses: covering-plate F, countersunk in the face of I I0 said sash, covering said lock-plate, and pro- JAMES HAMILTON CONLY, AN REW J OHNSON TAYLOR. 

